Tag: rune pages

      Bulk rune purchases hit the client, not yet fully implemented

      February 8, 2011 /

      rune_quantity

      I always loved saving up a bunch of IP and then dropping it all at once on some new runes. There was only one part of the process I didn’t like: individual purchases. Clicking that “Buy” button and watching Katarina dance nine times in a row has always been painful. I haven’t purchased runes in months, so you can imagine my surprise when I noticed a new feature today. Bulk rune purchases are now built into the PvP.net client. Unfortunately, the feature isn’t working yet.

      As you can see above, the rune purchase screen now has a quantity field. For the time being, the quantity can’t be changed, but it is a sign of good things to come. Well, it’s a sign of good things to come if you haven’t already maxed out your runes. I was surprised today when I noticed I didn’t have crit chance runes. I wanted to try out a couple different pages for a laning Master Yi so I bought some. I can’t say I’ll be buying others in the near future, but who knows. Maybe Riot will release something awesome. When they do, I’ll be buying in bulk.

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      I think we’ve hit post Season One stability

      August 13, 2010 /

      Cup o' Rage.I don’t know how much time you guys spend on the forums, but I’m there pretty much every day just to keep up with what’s going on in the game, even when I’m out of town or otherwise engaged throughout the day. If there’s one thing I’ve noticed over the past week or so, though, it’s that things seem to have stabilized.

      I’ll be the first to admit that Season One brought enough frustrations to warrant a lot of the grief that happened on the forums, on this blog, and even in-game to an extent. Some of those things have been reverted or changed – the level requirement for ranked, some of the matchmaking algorithms – but for the most part it seems people are settling in to the new mechanics around the game. If the biggest thing the community complains about is the price of a rune page (which is expensive, but not totally unreasonable), I think things are definitely calming down.

      What has your experience in game been like? Most of my recent games have been pretty tame. There are the random idiots that seem to make the world explode, either by their own rage or encouraging it from others, but even the typical “we lose because of x” has slowed back to what I consider normal levels.

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      LoL Basics: Crit chance or crit damage?

      January 22, 2010 /

      Warwick showing TF some love.Today I’ve got another rune discussion for you, branching off the magic penetration guide I made the other day. If you’re a physical DPS player – Ashe, Warwick, Twitch – you’re going to be going after critical strike items, typically culminating with Infinity Edge. Few things are quite as fun as burning down a Fiddlesticks with a few quick crits. So how should you spend your IP: critical strike chance runes or critical damage?

      There are two sides of the debate. For critical damage, the idea is that you are increasing your damage by means only available on two items in the game: Sword of the Occult and Infinity Edge. Those are the only method by which you can increase your critical damage and one, the Sword of the Occult, can be fairly unreliable. If you’re a Shaco player, crit damage can be invaluable as it increases the damage caused by Deceive. Early game you can nearly one-shot players if you have a full crit damage page.

      But crit damage runes are expensive. Very expensive. The crit chance folks would argue that crit chance has wider application and can more effective swing the early game in your favor. Bumping your crit chance by as much as 20% means you should win almost every stand and fight situation at level 1, and your harassment gets a big boost too. It’s easy to scare someone off with a few early 120+ hits. As abundant as critical chance items are, you could easily make the argument that runes allow you to forego some of those items in favor of damage, which could in turn lead to more Bloodthirster stacks, which gets very scary for the other team.

      For my IP points, I’d go for crit chance. They’re cheap, provide a solid benefit, and can help push you toward a few more wins until you’ve got the IP to upgrade to crit damage.

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